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07/23/2024

Young German Girl in the 1920s

07/13/2024

1929 - Young lad all dressed up

06/30/2024

1936 - Siblings in Ohio

06/30/2024

Cliff House in San Francisco, California, prior to being destroyed by fire in 1907.

06/29/2024

1929 - 230 Park Avenue, the NY Central Building, nearing completion.

Previously the area north of Grand Central was an open air rail yard. With the burying of the tracks underground, and most of the buildings today were built over the tracks, in a project known as Terminal City. 230 Park was the last major addition to the project.

It was renamed the New York General Building in 1958 and the Helmsley Building in 1978, though ownership was changed several times afterward. The building’s facade and lobby became New York City designated landmarks in 1987.

06/28/2024

American soldier (doughboy) departing for World War 1 in 1917

06/28/2024

The Bishop’s Palace, also known as Gresham’s Castle, is an ornate 19,082 square feet (1,772.8 m2) Victorian-style house, located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.

The Gresham mansion was made all of stone, and was sturdy enough to withstand the great hurricane of 1900. The Greshams welcomed hundreds of survivors of the hurricane into their home.

The house was built between 1887 and 1893 by Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton for lawyer and politician Walter Gresham, his wife Josephine, and their nine children.

06/22/2024

A beach in Iran a few months before the Islamic Revolution. 1978/79.

06/20/2024

A Lipstick Tester From The 1950s. Hired To Test Durability And Color Of Lipstick

06/20/2024

Anne Frank Photographed With Her Sister Margot On The Beach, Zandvoort, 1940

06/19/2024

Serendipitous Summer 1920 England

06/19/2024

1905 - The Postal Telegraph and Home Life Buildings- Broadway, at Murray Street.

256 Broadway was erected for the Home Life Insurance Company, while 253 Broadway was erected for the Postal Telegraph Company.

Both buildings were constructed simultaneously between 1892 and 1894. Although 256 Broadway was intended as a 12-story building, it was expanded to 16 stories mid-construction, making it one of the tallest buildings in the city when it was completed.

After the Home Life Company bought 253 Broadway in 1947, the two buildings were joined internally to form a single structure, and became collectively known as the Home Life Building.

The Home Life Company occupied the building until 1985. It was made a New York City designated landmark in 1991.

06/17/2024

🌍 😮 Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution.

06/16/2024

1908 - Trams on the Brooklyn Bridge

06/12/2024

1943 - Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village under construction.

Completed in 1947 (second pic), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village is a large, post-World War II private residential development on the east side of Manhattan.

The complex consists of 110 red brick apartment buildings on an 80-acre tract stretching from First Avenue to Avenue C, between 14th and 23rd Streets. Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village is split up into two parts: Stuyvesant Town, south of 20th Street, and Peter Cooper Village, north of 20th Street. Together, the two developments contain 11,250 apartments.

The area previously was named Gas House District, for the many gas plants in the area. A poor neighborhood, consisting mainly of four and five story walk ups.

They were named after Peter Stuyvesant, the last director-general of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, whose farm occupied the site in the 17th century. The buildings north of 20th Street are called Peter Cooper Village, named after the 19th century industrialist, inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper, who founded Cooper Union.

06/12/2024

Porcelain coffee set at the factory Mavaleix & Granger, Limoges, ca 1930.

06/11/2024

1905 - The “Spite House,” on 82nd St and Lexington Ave.

In 1882, Joseph Richardson built the thin apartment building to spoil the views of his next-door neighbor Henry Sarner. When Sarner was constructing his home, he put in a below-market offer ($1k) on Richardson’s sliver of land. Richardson wanted $5k. When Sarner balked at that offer, he retaliated by constructing his four story, 104 feet (31.7 m) wide and only five feet (1.5 m) deep apartment house.

Both buildings were demolished in 1915 to build the current structure, 129 E 82nd St.

06/10/2024

Whitemarsh Hall in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania.

The mansion was part of a large estate located on 300 acres (1.2 km2) and owned by banking executive Edward T. Stotesbury and his wife, Eva. Designed by the Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer, it was built in 1921 and demolished in 1980. Before its destruction, the mansion was the third-largest private residence in the United States.

05/03/2024

The Exchange Court Building in lower Manhattan, completed in 1898.

Modernized in the 1980s.

04/20/2024

New York City in the 1940s.

04/17/2024

The Civil Courts Building in St. Louis, Missouri, completed in 1928.

04/12/2024

1940s Beauty Routine 🧡🧡🧡

04/02/2024

1904 - The IRT Powerhouse (Interborough Rapid Transit Powerhouse) is a former power station of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.

Built in 1904, the colossal building fills the entire block between 58th to 59th Street, from 11th to 12th Avenues in Riverside South, Manhattan. Since the building became unnecessary to the subway system in the 1950s, Consolidated Edison has used the space to supply the New York City steam system.

The powerhouse is an elaborately detailed Renaissance Revival building. The architect was Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White.

In March 2009, the Consolidated Edison Company removed the last of its original smokestacks. However, one smokestack built in 1967 remains. The building’s smokestacks were designed to echo the smokestacks on the great steamships at the nearby Hudson River piers.

In 2015, a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting for the powerhouse was prioritized for designation as a public city landmark. Support for prioritizing the designation of the powerhouse was nearly unanimous, only opposed by two representatives of Consolidated Edison who currently operate the building.

03/29/2024

1868 - St Patricks Cathedral under construction.

Designed by James Renwick Jr., it is the largest Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral in North America.

The cathedral was constructed starting in 1858 to accommodate the growing Archdiocese of New York and to replace St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Work was halted in the early 1860s during the American Civil War; the cathedral was completed in 1878 and dedicated on May 25, 1879. The archbishop’s house and rectory were added in the early 1880s, both by James Renwick Jr., and the spires were added in 1888.

03/23/2024

1899 - The Dewey Arch, at 23rd St and Fifth Avenue.

A temporary wood and plaster structure built in honor of Naval Commodore George Dewey for his contributions during the Spanish American War.

It lasted about two years. The Flatiron building replaced the low structure on the right the following year.

03/22/2024

The clock in Penn Station in New York City. Penn Station opened in 1910 and was demolished in 1963. ....

03/19/2024

A couple walking on the streets of New York, 1915. (Colorized)

03/13/2024

The Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal was a railroad station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Constructed in 1903 and opened on April 13, 1904, the 11 floor Beaux-Arts domed 197 foot tall terminal was designed by Theodore Carl Link and cost George Jay Gould $800,000 ($26.1 million in 2022 dollars).

Floors 1 through 3 contained ticketing, passenger waiting areas and some retail with floors 4 and above serving hundreds of offices of Gould& #039;s Wabash Railway Corporation. The terminal lasted only four years as a Wabash Railroad terminal when the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway entered receivership on May 29, 1908. The Wabash would go on to lose both this railway and end affiliation with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway. The terminal continued to service passenger traffic until October 31, 1931, but survived beyond that as an office building and freight-only facility. Upon its repurposing, the building also lost its 11th-floor cupola. The adjacent freight warehouse was closed after two successive fires on March 6, and March 22, 1946 destroyed most of the infrastructure. The station was announced for demolition on July 5, 1953 to make way for the Gateway Center complex.

Demolition started on October 5, 1953 and was completed in early 1954....

03/08/2024

The Detroit City Hall, the seat of government for the city in Detroit, Michigan from 1871 until demolition in 1961.

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